IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/kud/kuiedp/9810.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Pay-per-view Television: Consequences of a Ban

Author

Listed:
  • Claus Thustrup Hansen

    (University of Copenhagen Institute of Economics)

  • Søren Kyhl

    (University of Copenhagen Institute of Economics)

Abstract

In the future, a ban of pay-per-view broadcasting will arise on certain events included on national lists in each EU country as put forward in the new "Television Without Frontiers" Directive from the 16th of April, 1997. This paper analyses theoretically the consequences of such ban when the alternative is financing the events purely by TV-commercials. Results on economic efficiency does not provide much reason for a ban. However, a ban increases consumer surplus which may support a ban for distributional reasons.

Suggested Citation

  • Claus Thustrup Hansen & Søren Kyhl, 1998. "Pay-per-view Television: Consequences of a Ban," Discussion Papers 98-10, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:kud:kuiedp:9810
    DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7187(99)00044-2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-7187(99)00044-2
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/S0167-7187(99)00044-2?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Keywords

    pay-per-view television; commercials; regulation;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L50 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - General
    • L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:kud:kuiedp:9810. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Thomas Hoffmann (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/okokudk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.